Award levels

• W. L. (Bill) Gore Award of Excellence
  The Delaware Quality Award in honor of W. L. (Bill) Gore recognizes Delaware businesses or organizations that demonstrate high levels of performance excellence. This top-level Delaware Quality Award is named for Bill Gore in honor of the visionary direction he gave his company regarding excellence, innovation, and working environment. A Gore Award recipient must display outstanding performance and be a role model in most of the seven Criteria categories of the award.

• Delaware Quality Award of Merit
  The Delaware Quality Award of Merit recognizes companies and organizations that demonstrate significant progress in their approach and deployment of quality systems. Although overall results may lack maturity, the Merit Award recipients are role models within Delaware in several of the seven Criteria categories.

• Delaware Quality Commitment Award
  The Delaware Quality Commitment Award recognizes businesses and organizations that are getting started in their quality journey. These organizations have put the basic quality building blocks in place that will lead them to future performance excellence.

• The Genevieve W. Gore Lifetime Achievement Award
  The Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognized outstanding leadership in the pursuit of performance excellence, was given in Mrs. Gore's name between 2001 and 2003 to honor her many contributions to the community.